{"id":984,"date":"2010-05-29T07:59:50","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T12:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=984"},"modified":"2010-05-29T07:59:50","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T12:59:50","slug":"facebook-and-bebo-were-used-by-uk-postman-to-find-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2010\/05\/29\/facebook-and-bebo-were-used-by-uk-postman-to-find-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook and Bebo were used by UK postman to find children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 1000 children using Facebook and Bebo may be unknown victims of the advances of a sexual predator in the south west of the United Kingdom, according to police reports.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Williams, a 28-year-old postal worker, used his routes as a postman to meet children and engage in innocent conversation, whereby he would learn their names. Later at home, he would search them out online using one of several fake identities.<\/p>\n<p>His two most popular aliases were that of a teenage girl, Gorgeous Charlie, and a teenage boy called James. Using these fake identities he would befriend youngsters online and either attempt to induce them to perform sexual acts in front of a webcam or arrange to meet with them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macaunews.net\/story\/640875\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 1000 children using Facebook and Bebo may be unknown victims of the advances of a sexual predator in the south west of the United Kingdom, according to police reports. Michael Williams, a 28-year-old postal worker, used his routes as a postman to meet children and engage in innocent conversation, whereby he would learn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}